Monday, June 8, 2009

Bing it!!!

Well it looks like Microsoft is again trying to regain some footing from Google in the search engine arena, they have abandoned Live.com and now release Bing.com. Bing is a simplified search page in which they have stripped out the many hundreds of links found on your typical microsoft landing page - no doubt in an effort to assimilate googles method of "simply searching and nothing more".

They have some nice features, for instance "Safe Search" restricts all adult content from searches, however safe search is easily turned off allowing all those unwanted search results back in again.

Microsoft has reportedly launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign to promote bing, so dont be surprised to see it on TV. Typically I would tell someone to "Google it" if they were searching for something, but I doubt anytime soon that you will hear anyone say "Bing it" as a friend mentioned to me the other day - the 'force' is strong with Google.

We shall see - competition keeps the knife sharp.

2 comments:

  1. If you want to compare Google and Bing look here: http://www.similgoogle.com/bingoogle.aspx

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